How to Exclude Workspaces from Archival Policies

Last updated: March 30, 2026

Overview

There may be workspaces that you do not want to be subject to a Archival policy. In Orchestry, you can ensure that certain workspaces are not subject to archival.

A few examples of such workspace are:

Intranet Sites:

You don't want to ever archive your Intranet as want these sites to live in perpetuity.

Organizational Teams:

Teams that are organizational-wide should be kept as the audience of the Team is so large

Historical Content:

Workspace that might not be actively used but required to exist should be kept.

Department Workspaces:

Workspaces for organizational departments are often designed to be permanent

To exclude an individual workspace:

  1. Open the Workspace Details page of a given workspace

  2. Click on the EDIT button for the Archival policy

  3. Set the 'Exclude Workspace Review from Archivals' toggle to YES

Your changes will be saved automatically.

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How to Exclude Individual Workspaces from Archival in Bulk

  1. Navigate to the workspace 'Reports' page

  2. Click the checkbox for the workspaces you wish to assign a policy to

  3. Click Assign > Workspace Archival

  4. Once selected press the 'Assign Policy' button to bring up the dialogue window

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In the 'Assign policies to Workspaces' dialogue window:

  1. Set the 'Excluded from Archivals' toggle to YES for all selected workspaces

  2. Click the "Assign Policies to X workspaces" button to SAVE your changes

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TIP: Use the built-in "Excluded from Archival" report to review all workspaces with the EXCLUDE toggle enabled:

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